The External Assessment

What is the primary purpose of an external audit in strategic management?

According to the Industrial Organization (I/O) view, what are the most important factors in a firm achieving competitive advantage?

What was the expected Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for China in 2009?

Which of the following is NOT listed as one of the five broad categories of key external forces that affect organizations?

What does the textbook project will be the percentage of individuals aged 65 and older in the United States population by the year 2025?

What is a key difference between the External Factor Evaluation (EFE) Matrix and the Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM)?

What are the three objectives of a competitive intelligence (CI) program?

What is the term for countries imposing tariffs, taxes, and regulations on firms outside the country to favor their own companies and people?

In the five steps for developing an External Factor Evaluation (EFE) Matrix, what is the range for the weight assigned to each factor?

Which of the following conditions does NOT cause high rivalry among competing firms?

According to the text, which state recently overtook California as the second-largest producer of solar energy in the United States?

What is the average total weighted score for an organization in an EFE Matrix?

What concept is defined as the number and significance of markets that a firm competes in with rivals?

Which of these is NOT one of the seven characteristics used to describe the most competitive companies?

What is the role of a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) as distinct from a Chief Information Officer (CIO)?

In the example Competitive Profile Matrix shown in Table 3-13, what is the total weighted score for Company 1?

What is considered a major advantage of a weak U.S. dollar for domestic firms?

Which of the following is NOT one of Porter's Five-Forces?

In the context of Porter's Five-Forces model, the presence of products like plastic containers, glass, paperboard, and aluminum cans competing with each other is an example of what force?

What is the primary characteristic that Freund emphasized key external factors should have?

How much did total U.S. advertising expenditures fall in 2009, according to the text's projection?

When consumers are concentrated or buy in volume, which of Porter's Five Forces is most directly affected?

What is the first step in performing a projected financial analysis?

In a Competitive Profile Matrix (CPM), what does a rating of 1 signify?

According to the text, the world's population was projected to surpass what number in 2010?

What is the primary benefit sought from restructuring?

Which financial ratio is NOT classified as a profitability ratio?

Which one of the following is NOT one of the three main approaches for determining a business’s worth?

What percentage of companies today do not have a formal policy preventing employees from surfing the Internet, according to the text?

What is the most widely used and least expensive type of organizational structure?

Which of these is NOT a symptom of an ineffective organizational structure listed in Table 7-6?

What is the primary purpose of a strategy-evaluation framework?

Which of Richard Rumelt's four criteria for evaluating a strategy is described as examining sets of trends and a firm's adaptive response to the external environment?

According to the text, what percentage of Fortune 500 companies are incorporated in Wilmington, Delaware?

What are the three main approaches for managing and resolving conflict?

Which type of organizational structure is described as the most complex because it depends on both vertical and horizontal flows of authority?

What is the term for alternative plans that can be put into effect if certain key events do not occur as expected?

In the example EFE Matrix for a local cinema, which factor was identified as the most important to being successful in the business?

What do leverage ratios measure?

According to the text, a conservative rule of thumb is to establish a business's worth as how many times the firm's current annual profit?

What does the text identify as a major disadvantage of a functional organizational structure?

Which of the following is NOT a guideline for when forward integration may be an especially effective strategy?

Which of the following is NOT one of the new principles of marketing in the Web 2.0 world listed in Table 8-1?

In the context of the Balanced Scorecard, what does the text state is the overall aim?

What does a rating of 4 signify in an EFE Matrix?

According to the text, which carmaker recently announced it would stop making televisions?

What type of strategy is being pursued when a firm sells a division or part of an organization?

Which of Michael Porter's five generic strategies emphasizes producing standardized products at a very low per-unit cost for price-sensitive consumers?

How does the chapter define market segmentation?

What is the key link between a projected income statement and a projected balance sheet?